Kate Grenville is one of Australia's best-loved authors. Her works of fiction have won numerous awards both in Australia and internationally. THE IDEA OF PERFECTION won the 2001 Orange Prize for Fiction and became a long-running bestseller. In 2006 THE SECRET RIVER won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Kate Grenville lives in Sydney, and maintains a website at www.users.bigpond.com/kgrenville.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-1-80530-248-3
EAN 9781805302483
Dolly Maunder is born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors are just starting to creak ajar for determined women. Growing up in a poor farming family in rural New South Wales, Dolly spends her life doggedly pushing at those doors. A husband and two children do not deter her from ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 13,20 €
ISBN 978-1-83885-124-8
EAN 9781838851248
When twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth marries the proud, scarred soldier John Macarthur, she soon realises she has made a terrible mistake. Forced to travel with him to New South Wales, she arrives to find Sydney Town a brutal, dusty, hungry place of makeshift shelters, failing crops, scheming and rumours.All her life she has learned to fold herself ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78211-887-9
EAN 9781782118879
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2006 COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN PRIZELondon, 1806. William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mistake for which he and his family are ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 18,95 €
ISBN 978-84-15608-68-4
EAN 9788415608684
A mediados del siglo XIX, la joven Sarah Thornhill lleva una sencilla vida en la colonia australiana de Nueva Gales del Sur. Vive junto a su taciturno padre, expresidiario, su estricta madrastra, su hermano Will y los criados de la familia a las orillas del río Hawkesbury, desde donde zarpan los barcos en los que ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84767-347-3
EAN 9781847673473
In 1788 Daniel Rooke sets out on a journey that will change the course of his life. As a lieutenant in the First Fleet, he lands on the wild and unknown shores of New South Wales. There he sets up an observatory to chart the stars. But this country will prove far more revelatory than ...
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